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Philip Glass did the score for one of my favorite films, "Koyaanisqatsi" Here is a YT cover of the opening song. I find the music has lots of feeling to it. ht

Philip Glass did the score for one of my favorite films, "Koyaanisqatsi" Here is a YT cover of the opening song. I find the music has lots of feeling to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC0FroHjB94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC0FroHjB94

HopenHeyHi 4y ago
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adzm 4y ago
Also one of my favorite films. In a similar vein, Baraka and Samsara are also great, but the score for Koyaanisqatsi is simply beautiful. The ending sequence still gives me chills. Lots of scenes do, actually.
- dusted 4y ago
  Those are also fantastic. Also, if you're into electronic music, RMB sampled Baraka a lot in one of his earlier albums.
dusted 4y ago
Yeah, I came here to write that.. If he was a movie, maybe was that. I found out about the movie because I loved the music by Rob Hubbard, to the C64 game Delta, which is basically the theme from Koyaanisqatsi, but sped up.
amstan 4y ago
One of those songs was a big inspiration to Delta, if you're into chiptunes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjPXW2yfE1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjPXW2yfE1I
intrasight 4y ago
Came to also mention - because IMHO Philip Glass is already a film. I walked in to a frat party in 1983 and the movie was playing on a TV - and my mind was blown! I've watched it several times since. I also got to see that it could still blow minds when I saw my 14 year old daughter's reaction.
- waltbosz 4y ago
  I first saw the film in the mid 2000s. By that time, many elements of the film had become dated (the cars, the fashions, the hairstyles, etc.) For me, the dated elements are a major part of what makes the film so interesting. It's a sort of detailed historical record of life in the past. It makes me wonder two things: 1. If the movie were recreated shot-for-shot in today's world, would still be it as interesting. Or would the contemporary elements make it less interesting. 2. What was it like to see the movie in the 1980s when the elements were still contemporary, and the film was absent of the historical-recordness. It's almost as if the passage of time has added something of value to the film which could not have existed when it was first released. And this film is unique in its ability to benefit from datedness. When I watch other 80s films and I see old fashions and hair styles, it sometimes takes value away from the film.
  - intrasight 4y ago
    The footage was certainly closer to "contemporary" in the 80's. But much of the footage was already pretty old. The Apollo 11 launch. The atom bomb. The St. Louis demolitions. The traffic and cars. It's mostly early to mid 70s. I am disappointed that there's not been a modern reboot - even as a crowdsourced/pirate version. But considering the attention span of the TikTok generation, I don't think it would work.

HopenHeyHi 4y ago

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adzm 4y ago

Also one of my favorite films. In a similar vein, Baraka and Samsara are also great, but the score for Koyaanisqatsi is simply beautiful. The ending sequence still gives me chills. Lots of scenes do, actually.

dusted 4y ago
Those are also fantastic. Also, if you're into electronic music, RMB sampled Baraka a lot in one of his earlier albums.

dusted 4y ago

Yeah, I came here to write that.. If he was a movie, maybe was that. I found out about the movie because I loved the music by Rob Hubbard, to the C64 game Delta, which is basically the theme from Koyaanisqatsi, but sped up.

amstan 4y ago

One of those songs was a big inspiration to Delta, if you're into chiptunes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjPXW2yfE1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjPXW2yfE1I

intrasight 4y ago

Came to also mention - because IMHO Philip Glass is already a film. I walked in to a frat party in 1983 and the movie was playing on a TV - and my mind was blown! I've watched it several times since. I also got to see that it could still blow minds when I saw my 14 year old daughter's reaction.

waltbosz 4y ago
I first saw the film in the mid 2000s. By that time, many elements of the film had become dated (the cars, the fashions, the hairstyles, etc.) For me, the dated elements are a major part of what makes the film so interesting. It's a sort of detailed historical record of life in the past. It makes me wonder two things: 1. If the movie were recreated shot-for-shot in today's world, would still be it as interesting. Or would the contemporary elements make it less interesting. 2. What was it like to see the movie in the 1980s when the elements were still contemporary, and the film was absent of the historical-recordness. It's almost as if the passage of time has added something of value to the film which could not have existed when it was first released. And this film is unique in its ability to benefit from datedness. When I watch other 80s films and I see old fashions and hair styles, it sometimes takes value away from the film.
- intrasight 4y ago
  The footage was certainly closer to "contemporary" in the 80's. But much of the footage was already pretty old. The Apollo 11 launch. The atom bomb. The St. Louis demolitions. The traffic and cars. It's mostly early to mid 70s. I am disappointed that there's not been a modern reboot - even as a crowdsourced/pirate version. But considering the attention span of the TikTok generation, I don't think it would work.